Lonsdale’s allies see him as a man of principle. But advocates for unhoused people say he may be putting the 700,000 unsheltered people in the US in danger.

This Palantir Billionaire’s Passion Project is Criminalizing Homelessness

Joe Lonsdale’s Cicero Institute lobbies to make sleeping outdoors a crime. Under Trump, the federal government is listening.

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AFRICA/MEDITERRANEAN HEAT WAVE Extraordinary heat 46.8C Faya HOTTEST AUGUST DAY IN CHAD HISTORY (after the 47C record in July) Very hot in the Balkans with up to 41.6C in NORTH MACEDONIA. Next week brutal heat: 49/50c In ALGERIA and TUNISIA and up to 43/45C in Greece and Turkey

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · yesterday

EXCEPTIONAL HEAT WAVE IN EASTERN EUROPE Another record day in the East with up to 41C in SERBIA and ROMANIA. MONTHLY RECORDS 40.6 Veliko Gradiste SERBIA HIGH MINS 25.4 Bihac BOSNIA 26.6 Zadar CROATIA

2/2 Even countries that appear water-rich are being squeezed. Growing demand from data centers, combined with industrial pollution, sewage, fertilizers, and agricultural runoff, is making water unusable across a widening range of regions. #Agriculture #DataCenters #Sewage

1/2 A financially bankrupt system can recover and eventually improve beyond its pre-bankruptcy baseline. Water-bankrupt systems cannot. Subsided lands, compacted #aquifers, melted #glaciers, dried #wetlands, and extinct species represent losses that no policy reversal can undo. #WaterCrisis

UN Declares Earth Has Entered a Phase of ‘Water Bankruptcy’ That Is Likely Impossible to Reverse (Daily Galaxy)

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Over the last 25 years, six people who contracted measles in the U.S. died from it. A model built by Stanford researchers predicts that if Americans could no longer get the vaccine, measles could kill about 290,000 people in the next 25 years. (Published March)

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

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Just for historical context: Through out the Carter administration through the Regan years immigrants in California without documentation were regularly deported from emergency rooms. This moment is a return to an American cruelty baseline

Before somebody says it… no, it’s not AI. Polish sculptor Jerzy Kędziora has turned defying gravity into an art form. #SheShed

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"Violate the law until a judge makes us stop" is the critically obvious weakness in the American justice system

For the last seven months straight, the U.S. government has refused to process immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries around the world; including visas for spouses of U.S. citizens. Today, a federal judge ruled the policy flagrantly illegal.

Bloomberg Law@bloomberglaw.com · 23h ago

The State Department’s sweeping suspension of immigrant visas to nationals from 75 countries violated federal immigration law and exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statutory authority, a district court ruled Friday.

102 former senior French and UK diplomats have urged their governments to uphold international law in the Palestinian territories, calling on French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to impose specific penalties on Israel in an effort to keep the two-state solution alive.

Und heute sagt die AfD in ihren Parteiprogrammen, dass sie die Dominanz der Frauen an der Universität brechen will, wobei die Stellen, die mit Frauen im Universitätsbereich besetzt sind, immer weniger werden, wenn man in die oberen Etagen kommt. Auch heute noch nur etwa 30%!

Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner (22. August 1871 - 3. August 1935) war eine russisch-deutsche Mikrobiologin. Sie wies die Übertragung der Tuberkelbazillen durch infizierte Kuhmilch nach. 1920 übernahm sie das Bakteriologische Institut am Städtischen Krankenhaus Moabit, 

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Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h ago

Among the many crazy things Trump has said in the last 48 hours, the threat to deploy the military to "fix" the bond market is the most worrisome. As usual, major US media has decided to simply ignore it. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...

The eugenics of fascism. bsky.app/profile/ndre...

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 9h ago

they think they have better dna than the rest of us and that they represent a step up the evolutionary ladder of the human species. not hyperbole, this is what they believe

After a personal situation left her staying in a home without air conditioning, a refrigerator, or a stove, she said she is running out of places to turn. Her hotel stay is ending, and the pastor, who has spent weeks trying to find her somewhere safe to go, said he has exhausted his resources.

Tulsa woman says disability, shelter limitations leave her without a place to stay as hotel help runs out

A disabled Tulsa woman who uses a walker is facing homelessness after being turned away from shelters that can't accommodate her physical needs.

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I honestly worry that not enough people will get it until they’re too debilitated to work and realize there’s actually no safety net (in the U.S.) to catch them. From someone who has lived a bit of the consequences of chronic illness/inability to work/rejections for disability pay when unable to

Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 18h ago

"If those studies are right, wouldn't we be seeing an effect right the way across society?" Wow, the denial runs deep. I'm gobsmacked too. Like, they literally just listed all the symptoms people have—and then asked where is the proof? You can’t make this stuff up.🤦‍♂️ Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

Settlers have besieged several Palestinian houses in the village of Qusra, trapping people inside and cutting off water and electricity in some cases.

Meet Loui Ridi: Palestinian American Returns to West Bank Home Besieged by Israeli Settlers

Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who lives in Ohio, traveled to the occupied West Bank on Monday to help relatives defend their family home in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus. Israeli settl...

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ALARMING: Polk County’s 287(g) partnership let local deputies act as ICE enforcers inside a hospital. Grace and Giulianna were kidnapped and handed to ICE while seeking medical care. Hospitals cannot become hunting grounds for immigration arrests. Share this.

This isn't a "surprising message of support for trans adults". This is a bigot whose arm is being twisted into doing public relations damage control by the media network that invested billions into a franchise she's been poisoning with hate for the last decade.

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · yesterday

JK Rowling issues surprising message of support for trans adults www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

IDF is targeting children, journalists, aid workers, paramedics, hospital staff and now Doctors Without Borders. Support Doctors Without Borders, they save lives while IDF kills.⬇️ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/get-involved....

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For more than 50 years, MSF has provided medical humanitarian aid to people impacted by conflict, natural disasters, epidemics and more. We depend on our donors to help fund the lifesaving care we bri...

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Trump administration moves to end attorney group's law school oversight. Keep in mind that the American Bar Association has filled this role since 1952 🔄- www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Trump administration moves to end attorney group's law school oversight

The U.S. Department of Education on Friday moved to strip the American Bar Association of its longstanding status as the federally recognized accreditor of U.S. law schools, deepening a clash between ...

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Meet South Australia’s algal bloom in action.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d ago

Giant cuttlefish numbers declined by almost 100pc this year, PIRSA says

Sorry re Alt text. Dissing Hanania, Yarvin & Cofnas as the least supreme of White supremacists.

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Contradicts right-wing commentators. Colour me shocked. To what degree is their salary boosted by bad actors?

Karlin Lillington@klillington.bsky.social · 2d ago

'The two interventions are significant rewilding projects and provide strong evidence that nature-based solutions can protect against wildfires. This contradicts claims by some rightwing commentators, who have blamed rewilding for causing wildfires.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Celebrity status, money, elite legal representation, professional communications advice ... shape the environment in which an allegation is made. None of that tells us whether an allegation is true, but it does tell us that the two parties do not enter the process with equal power."

For too long the AFL has chosen to protect its players than pursue justice for women. This needs to change, writes @tarangchawla.bsky.social. "... of the over 55 elite footballers accused of sexual assault between 1999 and 2016, none were convicted." www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

Australian football must reckon with its culture of entitlement – Tarang Chawla

For too long the AFL has chosen to protect its players than pursue justice for women. This needs to change.

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